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In the spring term 2022, the ISLE talks will be held onsite again with occasional online talks by speakers from abroad. We will inform you about any changes that may arise due to COVID-19 measures.
Information for UZH staff and students regarding the coronavirus outbreak
The ISLE colloquium is a joint event organized with the NCCR Evolving Language and the Brain & Cognition colloquium in Geneva. It takes place on Tuesdays from 12:15 to 13:30 h.
Please contact us if you would like to participate in the meeting or discuss any ISLE-related topic or ongoing study.
Date |
Organized by |
Location |
Topic |
Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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22.02.2022 |
ISLE |
AFL-F-121 |
"Harnessing heterotachy: towards flexible models for phylogenetic linguistics" (abstract) |
Chundra Cathcart |
| 01.03.2022 |
NCCR / ISLE / B&C |
online |
"Dynamic structural neuroplasticity in the bilingual brain" (abstract) |
Christos Pliatsikas School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading |
| 08.03.2022 |
ISLE |
cancelled |
"Broca's homologue - an underestimated brain area?" (abstract) |
Martin Meyer |
| 15.03.2022 |
NCCR / ISLE |
AFL-F-121 and online |
"Vocal communication and social network in Northern elephant seal males" (abstract) |
Nicolas Mathevon University of Saint-Etienne & Institut universitaire de France Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon |
|
22.03.2022 |
ISLE |
AFL-F-121 |
"Learning biases in syntagmatic and paradigmatic morphological relations" (abstract) |
Carmen Saldaña Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich |
| 29.03.2022 |
ISLE |
AFL-F-121 |
"Cultural evolution of know-how – a late onset and a restriction to the human ape" (abstract) |
Claudio Tennie Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| 05.04.2022 |
NCCR / ISLE / B&C |
Campus Biotech, Auditorium H8-01, Genève |
An executive control approach to language production (abstract) |
Etienne Koechlin, École Normale Supérieure, Paris and INSERM |
| 12.04.2022 |
ISLE |
AFL-F-121 |
"Asymmetries between agentive and patientive arguments in discourse and grammar" (abstract) |
Stefan Schnell, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich |
|
19.04.2022 |
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No meeting | --- |
| 26.04.2022 |
ISLE |
AFL-F-121 |
"Plastic responses in great ape communication: What wild-captive contrasts can tell us about the origins of human communication" (abstract) |
Marlen Fröhlich, Palaeoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 03.05.2022 |
ISLE |
AFL-F-121 |
"Languages and Sentences as Objects of Scientific Study: Syntactic Theories and Grammatical Properties" (abstract) |
Geoffrey K. Pullum FBA Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics, |
| 10.05.2022 |
NCCR / ISLE |
online |
"A neural model of task compositionality with natural language instructions" (abstract) |
Alexandre Pouget Département des Neurosciences fondamentales, Université de Genève |
| 17.05.2022 |
ISLE |
AFL-F-121 |
"Measurement Reliability of Individual Differences in Sentence Processing" (abstract) |
Lena Jäger Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich |
| 24.05.2022 |
ISLE |
AFL-F-121 |
"Swadesh spaces. Deep learning in phylogenetic linguistics" (abstract) |
Gerhard Jäger Chair of General Linguistics Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| 31.05.2022 |
NCCR / ISLE / B&C |
AFL-F-121 & on Zoom
|
“Where Do Numbers Come From?: |
Rafael Núñez Department of Cognitive Science, University of California (San Diego) |
